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07/08/2013 15:11
Mandated by Pacific Island Leaders, the establishment of a Pacific Regional Human Rights Mechanism is being deliberated in Suva Fiji, hosted by the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat in partnership with the Pacific Community (SPC), and the Commonwealth Secretariat with funding support from...
07/08/2013 15:09
[Manhattan, New York: 03 March 2013] Despite the fact that eleven female candidates stood in Tonga’s last general elections in 2010 and were unsuccessful in securing a seat in Parliament, the Hon. Minister of Internal Affairs, Lord Vaea made an intervention at the 10th Commonwealth National Women’s...
07/08/2013 15:04
[Manhattan, New York: 03 March 2013] Out of the six sub-regional members of the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Commonwealth Gender Plan of Action Monitoring Group (CGPMG), the only sub-region who successfully reported that it had held a meeting, since the last CGPMG meeting in March 2012, to deliberate...
07/08/2013 11:44
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For 2011 a total number of 262 clients sought the centre’s support services, including women, children and male clients. Domestic violence continues to be the most common source of support provided by WCCC, although reported cases of child abuse in 2011 have increased as have sexual...
07/08/2013 10:14
For 2011 a total number of 262 clients sought the centre’s support services, including women, children and male clients. Domestic violence continues to be the most common source of support provided by WCCC, although reported cases of child abuse in 2011 have increased as have sexual violence cases...
06/08/2013 16:43
I use to work to one of the government department before and we had some problem in which they took me to court.
One of the government agents was working on my case and suppose to take me to the police station to take down my statement, but he took me to some bush and rapes me.
It has been four...
06/08/2013 16:42
I got married when I was 17 and my husband was 21. My parents didn’t want me to get married but it’s my own choice.
We were very much in love. We have our own house. My husband work every day and I stayed home and does our house work. We have a lovely time together at home, we talk to each...
06/08/2013 16:40
“He went last Friday 20/1/2012 to work, and up to today he hasn’t returned home. We had one child who was adopted and he is dead now. I was so worried about my husband, where he is because I know that he went to work. I contact his workplace to check on him but he didn’t come to work.
I have been...
06/08/2013 16:39
I am 19 years old; I was adapted to a family of nine with eight boys and one girl. I was meant to be a sister to their only daughter who is what I was told, but it was different now as I grew up. I am the one who does all the housework at home.
My adopted parents separated when I was in class...
06/08/2013 16:38
I was only 10 years old when it started. My parents would often tell me to go to the local shop to get everyday necessities for the household like bread, butter and tinned fish.
One day the shop keeper told me to enter through the back door and I did. He told me that he had some...
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